Blandinsville High School - Crest Yearbook (Blandinsville, IL)

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5 fm 'r is To Miss McCartney: Some one to argue with her in Amer- ican History class. To Mr. Dechow: A Physics class that can do without the answer book. To Miss Gordon: Success with her dramatic work. To Mr. Webb: A large porthole so he can see the world. In addition we individually bequeath the following: I, Meredith Bright, will my ability to nshake the bonesn to Marvin Htnrnbaker, hoping he will have as much succmm as I. I, Donald Brandon, will my place on the basketball floor to Richard Cadle and George Edward Deems. They can div- ide ite I, Bill Hungete, will my place in the outer .office to Arthur Wilson. I, Willis Meek, will my half-day attendance at school to Richard Hainline, who can carry it out, due to past experience. I, Gerald Ruth, will my girl to anyone who has a car. I, Vernon Stout, will my well-groomed hair to Robert So- ule. I, Mary Harper, will my quietness and shyness to Dur- lyne Locke. l, Betty Taylor, will my ability to always be on time to Dorothymae Runner. I, James Gordon, will my twenty pounds of superfluous - tonnage to Marion Markham.

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Returning to duty September l, 1941, there were forty-two of the original forty-eight, additional recruits being Viana Veff, Mildred Shumate, Dorothey Hardy, Meredith Bright, Bill Hungate,Gerald Campbell and Lester Foote. Soon after taking' up our duties we had three deserters, Evelyn Allen, Marjorie Th- omas, and Bill Stewart. On November 18, l94l,we put on our final drill and special review, nTh6'RGdhCLEv ed Stepchild,W under command of Wilcox and Gordon. We shall receive our Honorable Discharge in May 1942, after having put in four years of good train- ing under General Dechow and Major Hall. Major Hall left us and was replaced by Major Davis. As weleave this training camp to venture further into the great unknown we feel that we shall be more able toshouldl er our guns and to march forward to success. SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the class of '42, being of sound mind and body, do hereby solemnly make this, our last will and tes- tament with the following bequeaths: We, collectively, will our great talents, physical strength and magnitudinous mental ability to our su- ccessors, the Juniors. To the Somxmbres, we bequeath our shy manners and great ideals, To the Freshmen, we will our ambition for the con- tinued success of Blandinsville High School. To Miss Davis: A soap box so she can more f eisily see the people in the back row. To Miss Hargrove: An English class that enjoys Eng- lish. To Miss Goenne: More success in her study halls.

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.,.1. , - , ,. . -,,- ' -vu Q. 3 -. 2-Lf 5 ...Q ' 1:3 4 w5Q? C25 ri,-,if Tr, ,Z 0' 1 I I, Ralph Killip, will my safe driving to Bob Jones. I, Zane Allen, will my place as Charlie's helper to Nyal Thomas. Lynn Shanholtzer will my desire to devote all I my time to my studies to Mary Argenbright. I, Lester E. Foote, Jr., will my rosy cheeks to Don- na Mae Allen. I, Mildred Shumate, will my flashy red hair to Kath- leen Allen. I, Marjorie Runner, will my interests in Rantoul to Eileen Brill. I, Marlise Butterfield, won't will anything to GRY' one because I want to keep all I've got. I, Marjory Carty, will my brother to anyone who can find peace with him around. I couldn't. I, Max Lober, will my ability to score Cat the halfl to Junior Brandon. I, Wayne Allen, will my great physical nstrengthand manly form to Carl Bray, Jr. I, Helen Chenoweth, will my success in getting dates to Maxine 'Haihline. I, Lloyd Sandstrom, will my gentmanly manners to Le onard Thompson. I, Halford York, will my great ability to chew cough drops in American History and get by with it to Ric- hard Carty. I, Marthabel Bice, bequeath my shyness to T Geneva Johnson.